Roy Lewis

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  • Bibliography:
    65 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1969
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Full Series List in Order

An Arnold Landon Novel

1 - A Gathering of Ghosts // Murder in the Barn (1982)
2 - Most Cunning Workmen // Murder in the Manor (Jan-1985)
3 - A Trout in the Milk // Murder in the Farmhouse (Sep-1986)
4 - Men of Subtle Craft // Murder in the Stable Yard (1987)
5 - The Devil is Dead // Murder in the Church (1989)
6 - A Wisp of Smoke // Murder in the House (1991)
7 - A Secret Dying // Murder in the Tower (1992)
8 - Bloodeagle // Murder under the Bridge (1993)
9 - The Cross Bearer // Murder by the Quay (1994)
10 - A Short-Lived Ghost // Murder at the Folly (1995)
11 - Angel of Death // Murder in the Field (May-1996)
12 - Suddenly As a Shadow // Murder in the Cottage (Jul-1997)
13 - The Shape-Shifter // Murder at Haggburn Hall (Nov-1998)
14 - The Ghost Dancers // Murder on the Golf Course (Feb-1999)
15 - An Assumption of Death // Murder on the Dawn Princess (Jul-2001)
16 - Dead Secret // Murder in Wolfcleugh Woods (May-2001)
17 - The Ways of Death // Murder at Abbey Head (May-2003)
18 - Headhunter // Murder in the South of France (Dec-2004)
19 - A Grave Error // Murder in Rome (Dec-2005)
20 - Dragon Head // Murder in China (Aug-2007)
21 - Shadowmaker // Murder in La Rochelle (Oct-2009)
22 - Goddess of Death // Murder in Valencia (Jan-2012)

An Eric Ward Mystery

1 - A Certain Blindness (1980)
2 - Dwell in Danger (Dec-1982)
3 - A Limited Vision (1983)
4 - Once Dying, Twice Dead // The Diamond Murder (Jan-1984)
5 - Blurred Reality // The Geordie Murder (1985)
6 - A Premium on Death // The Shipping Murder (1986)
7 - The Salamander Chill // The City of London Murder (Jan-1989)
8 - A Necessary Dealing // The Apartment Murder (1989)
9 - A Kind of Transaction // The Spanish Villa Murder (1991)
10 - A Form of Death // The Marriage Murder (Jan-2001)
11 - The Nightwalker // The Wasteful Murder (Apr-2002)
12 - Phantom // The Phantom Murder (Apr-2003)
13 - Dead Man Running // The Slaughterhouse Murder (Dec-2003)
14 - Embers Of The Dead // The Tattoo Murder (Oct-2005)
15 - Death Squad // The Football Murder (Mar-2007)
16 - Guardian of the Dead // The Tutankhamun Murder (May-2008)
17 - The Zodiac Murder (Sep-2023)

Inspector John Crowe

1 - A Lover Too Many (1969)
2 - Error of Judgement (1971)
3 - A Secret Singing (1972)
4 - Blood Money (1973)
5 - A Question of Degree (1974)
6 - A Part of Virtue (1975)
7 - Nothing but Foxes (1977)
8 - A Relative Distance (1981)

Book List in Order: 65 titles

  • A Lover Too Many

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    Inspector John Crowe - 1

    Peter Marlin is prime suspect following his wife's murder. After all, she had only just returned home after an unexplained absence of several months, during which time Peter had taken up with someone else. Inspector Crow of Scotland Yard arrives to m...

  • Error of Judgement

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    Inspector John Crowe - 2

    Robert Fanshaw, one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, was not expecting trouble on his visit to Burton Polytechnic until he found himself caught up in a student demonstration and the discovery of the body of the Principal's pretty secretary in ...

  • A Secret Singing

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    Inspector John Crowe - 3

    Solicitor Charles Lendon wasn't exactly the most popular person in the small town of Canthorpe. The ruthless pursuit of his career and the local ladies, and the closure of the right of way through his land, had made him many enemies. So when he was f...

  • Blood Money

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    Inspector John Crowe - 4

    Charlie Rutland specialized in scandal-hunting. As a journalist on a smart magazine, his job was to search out anything that could be turned into a good smear story. Then, while carrying out some 'investigations' in Yorkshire, his career came to an a...

  • A Question of Degree

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    Inspector John Crowe - 5

    The woman whose body was found down a South Wales coal mine was a stranger to those parts. She had come from the north-east in search of a missing husband, and with the help of an enquiry agent had found him. It does not take the local police long to...

  • A Part of Virtue

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    Inspector John Crowe - 6

    Inspector Crow is investigating the murder of caravan site manager Chuck Lindop. There had been a lot of comings and goings at the site, and many of those involved had a grudge against Chuck. There had also been a spate of burglaries in which Chuck m...

  • Nothing but Foxes

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    Inspector John Crowe - 7

  • An Uncertain Sound

    Crime was the last thing Durham solicitor Frank Hales had ever expected to be embroiled in, yet from the moment he got the news that his senior partner had vanished after milking a trust fund, he was plunged into an unfamiliar world. He found his mis...

  • A Certain Blindness

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    An Eric Ward Mystery - 1

    An Eric Ward mysteryIn the eyes of solicitor Eric Ward therewas something odd about Arthur Egan's life and death.But Ward was a former police inspector, and trained to be suspicious.Egan's estate comprised a large sum, to goto an heir no-one knew he ...



  • A Relative Distance

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    Inspector John Crowe - 8

  • A Gathering of Ghosts // Murder in the Barn

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    An Arnold Landon Novel - 1

  • Dwell in Danger

    An Eric Ward Mystery - 2

  • A Limited Vision

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    An Eric Ward Mystery - 3

    Solicitor and former police officer Eric Ward, recovering from a serious eye opera¬tion, is delighted by the offer of a new, high-paying job. Employed by a successful entrepreneur to negotiate contracts on his behalf, Ward is determined to overcome ...

  • Once Dying, Twice Dead // The Diamond Murder

    An Eric Ward Mystery - 4

    A thriving law practice and a happy marriage are almost enough to convince solicitor Eric Ward he has overcome his painful past and started a new life.All it takes is the wrong client for it all to unravel.An investigative journalist beaten to a pulp...

  • Where Agents Fear to Tread

  • Most Cunning Workmen // Murder in the Manor

    An Arnold Landon Novel - 2

    Called in to catalogue the library of a medieval manor about to be sold to an American conglomerate, antiquarian Arnold Landon finds himself embroiled in property disputes, corporate politics, and murder...

  • Blurred Reality // The Geordie Murder

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    An Eric Ward Mystery - 5

    After the operation to repair his diseased eyes, Eric Ward is left with clear vision, but a sense of time and place that is greatly altered-a blurred reality. He now finds himself in a world where the kidnapping of a child can be seen as life-threate...

  • A Premium on Death // The Shipping Murder

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    An Eric Ward Mystery - 6

    1988, mass market paperback reprint edition, Critic's Choice, NY. 208 pages. Most interesting suspense novel about an investigator who goes to Spain to check out an insurance claim for a ship sunk in Spanish waters....

  • A Trout in the Milk // Murder in the Farmhouse

    An Arnold Landon Novel - 3

    When a clash of interests concerning a planning application results in a violent death, Senior Planning Officer, Arnold London, becomes embroiled in a chilling murder investigation. Little does Arnold know that his assistant's secret attendance at an...



  • Men of Subtle Craft // Murder in the Stable Yard

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    An Arnold Landon Novel - 4

    A hunter stalks the wild, wooded grounds of the Kilgour Estates. But what—or who—is his quarry?A haughty professor comes calling on Arnold Landon for research assistance. But he’s overlooked an important fact. Landon already has a j...

  • The Salamander Chill // The City of London Murder

    An Eric Ward Mystery - 7

    Soliciter sleuth Eric Ward must advise on a questionable financial maneuver at work, and defend the advisor on his wife's estate against a murder charge, and soon finds the two episodes connected by more than coincidence...

  • The Devil is Dead // Murder in the Church

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    An Arnold Landon Novel - 5

    Planning officer Arnold Landon discovers a body in an abandoned church rumored to be the center for the revival of a medieval cult, but when a second murder flares community tensions, Landon suspects that modern evil lurks behind ancient supersition...

  • A Necessary Dealing // The Apartment Murder

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    An Eric Ward Mystery - 8

    Eric Ward, solicitor and part-time director of a merchant bank, saw no reason why he should not listen when an attractive female chairman of a company facing a management buy-out approached him for advice. When there was a rival bid Eric discovered t...

  • A Kind of Transaction // The Spanish Villa Murder

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    An Eric Ward Mystery - 9

    The arrival of Malaysian businessman Simon Chan in the North-East brought the prospect of business for Morcomb Estates and an assignment for solicitor Eric Ward: find the missing executive Harry Staughton. At the same time he was given another task b...

  • A Wisp of Smoke // Murder in the House

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    An Arnold Landon Novel - 6

    Planning officer Arnold Landon begins to research a book about his hobby, medieval architecture, but when the writer of the book is murdered, Landon is suspended from his job, and must clear his name before the real killer finds him...

  • A Secret Dying // Murder in the Tower

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    An Arnold Landon Novel - 7

    Assigned to finish a research project started by a colleague who has mysteriously disappeared, antiquities expert Arnold Landon travels to Northumberland where he picks up the trail of the missing man and decides to investigate...

  • Bloodeagle // Murder under the Bridge

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    An Arnold Landon Novel - 8

    A twisted MO torn straight from the history books.Arnold Landon steps out with his lady friend, hunting for relics on the deserted dig site where he works. Before long, they stumble on something under a bridge. The mangled remains of Arnold’s f...

  • The Evolution Man or How I Ate My Father

    Here is a typical Stone Age family, reimagined by Roy Lewis in this hilarious novel as characters in some glittering drawing-room comedy. Father, who has a scientific turn of mind, has just discovered fire. Mother makes sure the children finish suppe...

  • The Cross Bearer // Murder by the Quay

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    An Arnold Landon Novel - 9

    When Arnold Landon of the Department of Museums and Antiquities discovers an important forgery, a local politician invites him to join a secret society inspired by the fourteenth-century Knights Templar. Soon after Landon declines the invitation, the...



  • A Short-Lived Ghost // Murder at the Folly

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    An Arnold Landon Novel - 10

    A ruthless new boss shakes up Arnold’s quiet life at the council.From the moment Karen Stannard comes striding in the door, Arnold Landon knows his workplace will never be the same.Now, he is saddled with a project he never wanted: the Ridg...

  • Cock of the Walk

    An ingenious reconstruction of an episode in English social and religious history, based in the mid-Victorian era at the time of the Great Exhibition. A medley of figures, the good and the great, flit across the stage. These, and the ambience of the ...

  • Angel of Death // Murder in the Field

    An Arnold Landon Novel - 11

    An Arnold Landon mystery novel.At the request of his friend Dr Rena Williams, Arnold Landon is delegated to help out at a Romano-Celtic burial dig at Garrigill, and, after a dinner party given by local landowner Stephen Alston, soon realizes that pre...

  • Suddenly As a Shadow // Murder in the Cottage

    An Arnold Landon Novel - 12

    An Arnold Landon mystery novel.It is over a hundred years since workers clearing the way for a new railway through the remote Ravenstone Fell stumbled across an ancient burial site. Now the railway itself is obsolete, serving a ghost community, and d...

  • The Shape-Shifter // Murder at Haggburn Hall

    An Arnold Landon Novel - 13

    An Arnold Landon mystery novelWhen Arnold Landon's ambitious boss, Karen Stannard, is suspended pending the result of an official inquiry, she holds Landon responsible. Which makes for a degree of tension in the air at Haggburn Hall, where they have ...

  • The Ghost Dancers // Murder on the Golf Course

    An Arnold Landon Novel - 14

    This book is an absorbing blend of archaeological mystery and modern-day murder from the ever-popular Roy Lewis. The sudden death of the Director of the Museums Department, Simon Brent-Ellis, throws the Department into greater than usual turmoil. The...

  • A Form of Death // The Marriage Murder

    An Eric Ward Mystery - 10

    Eric Ward thinks he is happily married -- until he discovers that his wife, Anne, has been spending rather too much time with a business associate. Suspicious and angry, Ward finds comfort in the arms of a beautiful stranger. But when his new lover i...

  • Dead Secret // Murder in Wolfcleugh Woods

    An Arnold Landon Novel - 16

    What appears to be a simple land dispute turns deadly in this smart new mystery that takes archaeologist Arnold Landon to the ancient Pentire Woods in rural Northumberland and calls upon all his considerable intelligence and abundant knowledge of his...

  • An Assumption of Death // Murder on the Dawn Princess

    An Arnold Landon Novel - 15

    The discovery of a headless corpse at sea causes police enquiries to concentrate on drug smuggling in the north east of England, but archaeologist Arnold Landon has his own problem to solve. An ultimatum from his long term girlfriend has left him wit...

  • The Nightwalker // The Wasteful Murder

    An Eric Ward Mystery - 11

    HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN?Eric Ward agrees to represent the interests of a local environmental campaign. Then an explosion at the industrial-waste plant leaves his client dead.Joe Paulson wasn’t exactly a criminal. But...



  • Phantom // The Phantom Murder

    An Eric Ward Mystery - 12

    Newcastle-based lawyer Eric Ward is surprised when an important local shipping firm, Goldsteins, pay him a large retainer to do some work for them. Goldstein’s have their own in-house legal team so Ward can’t understand why they have come to him ...

  • The Ways of Death // Murder at Abbey Head

    An Arnold Landon Novel - 17

    Winter storms and a landslide have uncovered an ancient sea cave on the Northumbrian coast and, escaping the tensions of his difficult relationship with his director and her beautiful assistant, archaeologist Arnold Landon takes time out to probe its...

  • Dead Man Running // The Slaughterhouse Murder

    An Eric Ward Mystery - 13

    Following the devastating impact of foot-and-mouth disease, hill-farmer Paddy Fenton is facing financial ruin. When a casual acquaintance offers to lease one of his outbuildings for cash, the temptation of making a little money on the side is too goo...

  • Headhunter // Murder in the South of France

    An Arnold Landon Novel - 18

    The wind in Headhunter is a chilling one, and Arnold Landon may require a good deal more than archeological know-how in solving a case that could quite literally be the death of him. Here, the headless torso of a child has been fished out of the Tyne...

  • Embers Of The Dead // The Tattoo Murder

    An Eric Ward Mystery - 14

    Solicitor Eric Ward maintains a small criminal practice on Newcastle’s Quayside. This simple life, however, is soon to change. Eric’s reluctant attendance at an annual dinner leads him to meet Ben Shaw, a merchant banker who seems to know an awfu...

  • A Grave Error // Murder in Rome

    An Arnold Landon Novel - 19

    Archaeologist Arnold Landon's attendance at a conference in Rome leads him into the world of professional grave robbers, when he stumbles upon a revenge killing in the Etruscan city of the dead. Back in less glamorous Northumberland, DCI O'Connor has...

  • Death Squad // The Football Murder

    An Eric Ward Mystery - 15

    Tyneside solicitor Eric Ward has a new client: Dieter Barschel, an ex-professional footballer charged with drug dealing at a Newcastle racecourse. In managing to secure bail for his client, Eric precipitates another murder investigation, this time wi...

  • Dragon Head // Murder in China

    An Arnold Landon Novel - 20

    A surprising offer from a Chinese businessman leads archaeologist Arnold Landon into the world of a corrupt, centuries-old criminal organization known as the Syndicate of the Ghost Shadow. While the lives of two female colleagues are at risk, Arnold ...

  • Guardian of the Dead // The Tutankhamun Murder

    An Eric Ward Mystery - 16

    As executor of Colonel Delamere’s estate, Eric Ward is required to deliver to the Foreign Office a sealed envelope and an Anubis statuette in the event of the Colonel’s death. But Delamere dies at the hands of burglars and the st...

  • The Fenokee Project

    Everything was going well for Ben South and his partner. With the signed contract for the Cornelius hotel chain in their pocket, their future looked bright. Then a letter arrived and overnight everything changed. Seven years earlier, South's young wi...



  • Shadowmaker // Murder in La Rochelle

    An Arnold Landon Novel - 21

    Asked to advise on the antiques collection of a mysterious widow, Arnold Landon enlists the aid of an old friend, Carmela Cacciatore of the Carabinieri Art Squad. He soon finds himself drawn into the investigation of an antiquities smuggling operatio...

  • Design for Murder

    When Eric Ward and Sharon Owen defend suspected serial killer Raymond Conroy, they win an acquittal on a technicality, thus incurring the wrath of CI Charlie Spate. Ward has no desire to act further for Conroy when the man decides to remain in the no...

  • A Wolf by the Ears

    After his parents died in a fire, Stephen Kirk expected to inherit a fortune, although his parents had left no will. But doubts are soon cast on his legitimacy. David Centre, a qualified solicitor, tries to unravel Kirk's complicated family history, ...

  • Goddess of Death // Murder in Valencia

    An Arnold Landon Novel - 22
    Worldwide Mysteries - 866

    A TRAIL OF SHADOWS… It's the chance of two lifetimes for antiquities expert Arnold Landon. He's tracked down an ancient, long-vanished statuette of Artemis straight to one of Europe's most infamous art thieves. Finding the piece for an artifact-...

  • A Distant Banner

    Henry Jones ought to have been good for something more than working as a scaffolder on a building site. He had a degree, the offer of a job, a girl-friend only too eager to settle down to Welsh respectability. Yet he deliberately turned aside. Instea...

  • The Paduan Conspiracy

    The discovery of a dead man at Chesters Fort meant that CI Cardinal's plans to smash the gang of his old adversary Clifford were thwarted. He assigns DS Grout to investigate the murder while he co-ordinates the hunt for gang-leader Clifford. The inve...

  • Dead Ringer

    In old age, Edwin James looks back over his scandalous life in the law and the theater. He recalls his rise to fame and fortune which begins as a debt-ridden counsel in the case arising from the Running Rein scandal of the 1844 Derby. Humiliated in c...

  • Breaths of Suspicion

    As his rise in the legal profession accelerates, Edwin James seeks to further enhance his prospects by obtaining a seat in Parliament. However, James finds that he must first act as an election agent in what is quickly seen as the most corrupt electi...

  • Seek for Justice

    Alan Fearnley stood apart from mourners at his brother's funeral, uncertain of his welcome in the Welsh valley after an absence of fifteen years. Alan was used to scrutinizing figures; now he was scrutinizing facts, for someone was claiming insistent...

  • Witness My Death

    The murder of a pregnant girl in a Welsh mining valley, and the subsequent arrest in what the police consider an open and shut case, was a double blow to Taliesin Rees, who had been the local doctor for many years. Both accused and victim were his pa...

  • A Fugitive Englishman

    A successful Englishman flees to America to escape his hidden past -- only to get himself into deeper, more dangerous waters in New York

    Edwin James reaches the height of his professional career in the law when, on the brink of bein...

  • Cardinal Obsession

    D.C.I. Cardinal’s plans to smash the gang of his old adversary Gus Clifford are thwarted by the discovery of a dead man in Northumberland. He assigns D.S. Grout to investigate the murder while he continues to lead the hunt for Clifford. Grout’s i...

  • Shadows of the Past

    When Charles Fresnay investigates a murder on his first day as parish constable he finds opposition from locals and magistrates but nevertheless decides to pursue his enquiries. What he does not realise is that the reasons for the killing are rooted ...

  • A Distant Bugle

    At fourteen years of age Carlo de Rudio fought in the war for independence of Italy, the Risorgimento. With the collapse of the revolution he was persuaded to join in at attempt to assassinate Emperor Louis Napoleon. When the attempt failed he was ar...

  • Professional People in England

  • The Zodiac Murder

    An Eric Ward Mystery - 17

    Don’t miss the final book in the bestselling Eric Ward series. It’s a cracker!A dangerous killer with a penchant for the Zodiac symbols is abducting, torturing, and murdering women. Eric Ward and Sharon Owen are in court defending the man...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Roy Lewis has published 65 books.

Roy Lewis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Zodiac Murder, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Roy Lewis, A Lover Too Many, was published in January 1969.

Yes. Roy Lewis has 3 series.
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